Vice Versa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DBDBEE FGFGDD HBHBCC| Down in the state of Maine the story goes | A |
| A woman to secure a lapsing pension | B |
| Married a soldier though the good Lord knows | A |
| That very common act scarce calls for mention | B |
| What makes it worthy to be writ and read | C |
| The man she married had been nine hours dead | C |
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| Now marrying a corpse is not an act | D |
| Familiar to our daily observation | B |
| And so I crave her pardon if the fact | D |
| Suggests this interesting speculation | B |
| Should some mischance restore the man to life | E |
| Would she be then a widow or a wife | E |
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| Let casuists contest the point I'm not | F |
| Disposed to grapple with so great a matter | G |
| 'T would tie my thinker in a double knot | F |
| And drive me staring mad as any hatter | G |
| Though I submit that hatters are in fact | D |
| Sane and all other human beings cracked | D |
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| Small thought have I of Destiny or Chance | H |
| Luck seems to me the same thing as Intention | B |
| In metaphysics I could ne'er advance | H |
| And think it of the Devil's own invention | B |
| Enough of joy to know though when I wed | C |
| I must be married yet I may be dead | C |
Ambrose Bierce
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